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(No Model.) E. G. SIM &. R. H. BISHOP.

TROUSERS STRBTGHER.

Np. 367,559. Patented Aug.- 2, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

ED\VABD Gr. SIM AND ROBERT E. BISHOP, OF SMlTHFIE-LD, COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND.

TROUSERS-STRETCHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,559Jdated August 2, 1887.

Application filed March 14, IP57.

fication.

In trousers-str-ctchers as at present in 0st 00 mmonly constructed the trousers are secured on the outside in two places by clamps, which are pushed apart by a screwed rod or other mechanical means, and tension is thereby ap plied to the trousers to take out creases, &C.

There are, however, objections to the use of clamps, the most important of which is that they make marks on the trousers.

Now, the present invention consists in a novel and very simple and inexpensive device, hereinafter described and claimed, which is to be applied within the leg of the trousers, and by which the objections to the use of clamps will be overcome.

Our stretcher is composed of a length of spring-steel wire or analogous metal bent to the shape substantially as shown in the draw in g, which represents a side view of astreteher. This form resembles substantially a double outline profile of the letter H. The ends of the wire are secured together by a clip, 0, and

the wire then constitutes a combination of two bars, A A,wl1ich conform, respectively, to the back and front of the longitudinally-folded leg Serial No. 230,948. (No model.)

of the trousers, and two springs, 13 B, connecting the ends of said bars and nearly meeting at the middle of the length thcreo f. The front bar, A, is represented as curved at a to fit the lower part of the front of the trousers.

To introduce the stretcher into the leg of the trousers, it will only be necessary to grasp with the hand the two spring portions B B of the wire on both sides of the middle 6 and press them together to contract the width of the stretcher and then insert the apparatus into the upper part of the trousers leg and alterward push it down to the required position at or near the bottom. The stretcher when thus inserted will distend and stretch the trousersleg and thereby take out the creases.

\Vhat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A trousers-stretcher composed of one length of wire bent to a form substantially like that of a double outline profile of the letter H, and constituting a combination of two bars, A A, and two springs, B 13-, which connect the ends of said bars and nearly meet at the middle of the length thereof, substantially as herein set forth.

EDWARD G. SIM. ROBERT H. BISHOP.

\Vitnesses:

A. S. Bisnor, A. \V. SPAGKMAN, 30171 of (3 .lrvmnis Bldga, Chancery Lam, Lon

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